Re: CHAT: I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 11, 1999, 11:12 |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Ed Heil wrote:
> ObConLang: Honestly, sloppily put together as it seems to have been,
> Huttese was one of the things that really made the movie for me. It
> put a chink into one of those almost unavoidable but annoying things
> that turn up in popular science fiction: the "everyone on every planet
> speaks English" syndrome.
>
Worse still: "everyone on every planet thinks like English speakers do".
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.